Speaker 1: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Speaker 1: The shadow knows.
Speaker 2: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Speaker 3: The Shadow, mysterious character who aids the forces of law
Speaker 3: and order, is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man
Speaker 3: about town. The Shadow uses his hypnotic power to cloud
Speaker 3: men's minds so that they cannot see him. Cranston's friend
Speaker 3: and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the only person
Speaker 3: who knows to whom the unseen voice of the Shadow belongs.
Speaker 3: Today's story, Sandhog Murders. Deep under the river, knee-deep in
Speaker 3: glacial muck and slime, you'll find them, the sandhogs, working
Speaker 3: under terrible pressure, pressure beating against their eardrums, pressure forcing
Speaker 3: little nitrogen bubbles into their bloodstreams, pressure that causes death,
Speaker 3: pressure that keeps the river out of the tunnel that
Speaker 3: men are building under the river, 100 feet.
Speaker 2: Under the river. How far did we go on that
Speaker 2: last shot?
Speaker 1: Twenty-seven inches, boss.
Speaker 2: Tighten those jacks next to the shield.
Speaker 1: Okay, boss.
Speaker 2: Here, Rodsky speaking.
Speaker 3: Time?
Speaker 2: Okay. All right, men, that's all for today. Let's go. Hey, hey, Mr. Pine.
Speaker 2: Want to get left down here? You better come along
Speaker 2: and get in the decompression chamber.
Speaker 1: Say, I.
Speaker 4: I hate to admit this, but when I feel sick,
Speaker 4: I can hardly move my hand.
Speaker 2: That's the same complaint from all visitors to our little
Speaker 2: rabbit hole. Just give me your arm.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: There we are. Come on, come on. Into the decompression chamber.
Speaker 2: Get the move on, all of you.
Speaker 4: This shift is over with.
Speaker 2: Quit your beefing.
Speaker 4: You get your pay regular, don't you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think? Okay. Decompress. Decompressing. Mr.
Speaker 1: Fines.
Speaker 2: You know what could happen to you if you got
Speaker 2: left behind? No.
Speaker 1: Ever been in a pressure tunnel before?
Speaker 4: No, I haven't.
Speaker 2: Well, it ain't no picnic ground, mister. Ever hear of
Speaker 2: the bends?
Speaker 4: Some kind of sickness, isn't it?
Speaker 2: It ain't no reducing exercise.
Speaker 1: I'll tell the world it's sickness. You see, working in
Speaker 1: these pressure tunnels pumps you full of nitrogen bubbles. And
Speaker 1: if you was to come out of the pressure too fast,
Speaker 1: those bubbles would stop.
Speaker 2: Your heart quicker than a dollar watch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta have the right kind of stomach to
Speaker 4: stand it.
Speaker 2: You know what would happen if we opened that door now?
Speaker 4: Now what?
Speaker 1: We'd all pop like punctured balloons. The pressures got to
Speaker 1: go down slow like. Just now we are working under...
Speaker 1: 39 pounds of pressure, push, Quarry. Say, are you trying
Speaker 1: to scare me? Lay off him, Jack. Have you had
Speaker 1: enough trouble lately?
Speaker 2: Hey, hey. I'll tell you why. The pressure's dropping too fast.
Speaker 5: Oh, he killed me.
Speaker 2: Tell him. Tell him to increase the pressure. Too late.
Speaker 2: Too late. We're done. Help.
Speaker 6: Lamont, did you read the comic strips this morning?
Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
Speaker 5: They were very humorous.
Speaker 6: Winnie Winkles in the hospital, Little Orphan Annie's house burned down,
Speaker 6: and Andy Gump was hit by a truck.
Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
Speaker 5: Lamont, I wonder why they call them funny papers. Hey,
Speaker 5: are you listening to me?
Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
Speaker 5: Listen, Mr.
Speaker 6: Cranston, you haven't paid the slightest bit of attention to
Speaker 6: anything I've said to you for the last hour.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Margo, but that horrible business in the new
Speaker 1: intercity tunnel has been on my mind.
Speaker 5: What business?
Speaker 4: Eight men were killed in the decompression chamber yesterday.
Speaker 5: Decompression chamber?
Speaker 4: Something evidently went wrong.
Speaker 1: Pressure was lowered too suddenly and they all died terrible deaths.
Speaker 5: Well, how did it happen, Lamont?
Speaker 2: They don't know.
Speaker 4: It looks pretty funny.
Speaker 1: According to the newspaper reports, the men working at the
Speaker 1: tunnel had been expecting something to happen... There'd been several
Speaker 1: near accidents, and the men were pretty jittery.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 5: Well, you don't suppose that.
Speaker 6: Oh, Lamont, I know that look in your eye, that
Speaker 6: old crime detector look.
Speaker 5: You think that someone had something to do with that accident.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about that, Margo. The reason I'm
Speaker 1: upset is that Pete Stockton is an old friend of mine.
Speaker 1: I know just how he must feel to have eight
Speaker 1: of his men killed working on his tunnel.
Speaker 5: Pete Stockton?
Speaker 1: Yes, the contractor. We went to school together. This inner
Speaker 1: city tunnel is the first big job he's handled alone
Speaker 1: since his father died about.
Speaker 4: A year ago.
Speaker 5: Oh, I see. And you'd like to see him, wouldn't you?
Speaker 4: No, Margo, not today. We have a date. I wouldn't
Speaker 4: think of it.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's just the trouble you do think of it.
Speaker 6: So I guess we might just as well see this
Speaker 6: old schoolmate of yours.
Speaker 4: Margo, you're wonderful. THE END.
Speaker 1: But about those men who died in the decompression chamber, Pete,
Speaker 1: how do you explain that?
Speaker 2: I can't explain it, Lamont.
Speaker 7: There's been so much trouble around here on this job,
Speaker 7: and then to have this terrible thing happen.
Speaker 4: Well, it'll never happen to me again. What do you mean?
Speaker 4: I'm quitting.
Speaker 7: I never wanted this tunnel work. I was just doing
Speaker 7: it for Dad's sake. Well, he's dead now. Joe Brandy
Speaker 7: and other contractors agreed to take the whole thing off
Speaker 7: my hands.
Speaker 4: Quitting?
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 4: I couldn't stand another experience like this one. All those
Speaker 4: men left. Wives, sweethearts, mothers.
Speaker 2: How can I ever repay them? Make up to them
Speaker 2: for their loss? Hey, Pete. The men want to talk
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 8: They want to go.
Speaker 2: Back to work. What, did you tell them that Brandy
Speaker 2: was taking over Mundy?
Speaker 4: I told them, but they want to work for you,
Speaker 4: not Brantley. Well, I guess I'll have to tell them myself. Oh,
Speaker 4: by the way, this is Pop Berkey.
Speaker 2: Miss Lane.
Speaker 4: How do you do?
Speaker 2: Mr.
Speaker 4: Cranston. How do you do?
Speaker 7: Pop's an old-timer. He and my dad broke into the
Speaker 7: business together. Well, ask him anything you want to know
Speaker 7: about sand hogging.
Speaker 4: I'll be back in a few minutes.
Speaker 5: He's taking the whole thing pretty hard, isn't he?
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 4: I'd like to help him, Margo. He's a swell guy.
Speaker 4: First time you two have been around the tunnel in
Speaker 4: the making?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, it's very interesting, isn't it? But is it
Speaker 6: necessary to keep everything so greasy?
Speaker 5: Mr.
Speaker 4: Berkey, what caused the accident in the decompression chamber? Are
Speaker 4: you asking me what or who?
Speaker 1: So you think that the accident wasn't exactly an accident?
Speaker 1: I got my own ideas, but I'm not saying.
Speaker 4: If you know anything, Mr. Berkey, you've got to tell me.
Speaker 1: Well, now, supposing you were in the contracting business and
Speaker 1: another contractor beat you out on a big job, an
Speaker 1: important job. Wouldn't you try a couple of little things
Speaker 1: to get the job back? You call the murder of
Speaker 1: eight men little things? Maybe you didn't want to kill
Speaker 1: the men in the decompression chamber. Maybe you just wanted
Speaker 1: to scare them so they'd be afraid to work for
Speaker 1: your rifle.
Speaker 5: But to take a chance with men's lives.
Speaker 2: Lady, you don't know Joe Brandly.
Speaker 4: Joe Brandly?
Speaker 2: The man who's taking over the contract from Stockton? Yeah.
Speaker 4: And a dirtier man would be impossible to find. He
Speaker 4: wouldn't stop at anything.
Speaker 1: Looks like he won out pretty easy, don't it? Pete's
Speaker 1: turning the contract over to him Monday.
Speaker 2: Well, he hasn't won yet.
Speaker 1: Pop Brookie, if you see anything suspicious happening around here,
Speaker 1: I want you to call me immediately.
Speaker 4: You understand? Right. Come along, Margo.
Speaker 2: We'll stop that fellow, Brantley. Margo?
Speaker 4: I think the Shadow is going to pay a call
Speaker 4: on a certain Mr. Brindley.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 2: Why should I be afraid? What?
Speaker 4: Stockton is turning the job over to me?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 4: At the tunnel.
Speaker 2: When? Tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, let him try it.
Speaker 1: I'll be at that tunnel and settle this thing once
Speaker 1: and for all.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for the information.
Speaker 4: Goodbye. Thank you for the information, Mr.
Speaker 1: Brantley. What?
Speaker 2: Who spoke?
Speaker 4: I did, Mr.
Speaker 1: Brantley.
Speaker 4: Who are you?
Speaker 2: I am called the Shadow. Where are you? I can't
Speaker 2: see you.
Speaker 1: I have wielded that you won't see me, Brantley. I've
Speaker 1: cast a mist over your mind that makes me invisible
Speaker 1: to your eyes.
Speaker 4: What do you want of me?
Speaker 1: I would like to know more about that phone conversation
Speaker 1: you just had. I believe it was concerned with the
Speaker 1: murders in the new intercity tunnel. Murders?
Speaker 2: Those men were supposed to die by accident.
Speaker 4: Did you have anything to do with that accident, Mr. Brantley?
Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: I'm asking you, did you have anything to do with
Speaker 2: those murders? No, nothing.
Speaker 4: Then who were you speaking to on the telephone?
Speaker 2: Why should I tell you? You'd better talk, Mr.
Speaker 4: Brantley.
Speaker 2: You haven't got anything on me.
Speaker 4: That's true. I can't pin anything on you just now.
Speaker 4: But let me warn you, Mr.
Speaker 2: Brantley.
Speaker 1: The Shadow intends to prevent anyone from destroying the intercity tunnel.
Speaker 4: Who's there?
Speaker 2: Oh, it's you, Mr. Cranston.
Speaker 4: I couldn't see you in the dark. Yes, Pop Berkey.
Speaker 5: Oh, Lamont, thank heaven you've come.
Speaker 4: Margo, what are you doing here at the tunnel?
Speaker 5: Well, I was waiting for you at your apartment, Lamont,
Speaker 5: when Mr. Berkey called.
Speaker 4: You asked me to call you if anything suspicious was
Speaker 4: going on here.
Speaker 5: And something suspicious is going on here.
Speaker 4: There's someone down in the tunnel, Mr.
Speaker 2: Cranston.
Speaker 4: Yes, I know. I expected the killer would make his
Speaker 4: move tonight with the tunnel deserted. But what are you
Speaker 4: doing here, Margo?
Speaker 6: Well, I don't know, but I didn't know how to
Speaker 6: get in touch with you, so I thought I'd see
Speaker 6: what I could do in your absence.
Speaker 5: I left a note for you at your apartment, Lamont. Oh,
Speaker 5: am I glad you've come.
Speaker 6: The very idea of going down into that empty tunnel
Speaker 6: gives me the cold chills.
Speaker 4: Now, wait a minute, Margo. What were you expecting to
Speaker 4: do down in the tunnel?
Speaker 5: What was I expecting to do?
Speaker 4: Why, I was.
Speaker 5: Well, now that you mention it, what was I expecting
Speaker 5: to do?
Speaker 1: Margo, we're dealing with a desperate man. Do you realize
Speaker 1: what might be waiting for you down there?
Speaker 2: Mr.
Speaker 1: Cranston is down in the tunnel, all right? The elevator
Speaker 1: was at the bottom of the shaft when I came
Speaker 1: back from dinner.
Speaker 4: Berkey, what can he do to the tunnel? He could
Speaker 4: set a time bomb and blow it to pieces. Well,
Speaker 4: let's go.
Speaker 2: Where?
Speaker 4: We're going down into the tunnel, Margot, on a manhunt.
Speaker 4: You better wait here.
Speaker 2: All alone?
Speaker 4: We won't be going long.
Speaker 5: Uh-uh, not me. I'd rather go down the tunnel.
Speaker 4: All right, then, let's go. Where's the elevator, Berkey? Over
Speaker 4: this way. I have some boots for you to wear.
Speaker 4: There's a little muddy down below. All right. Here, step in, Margot.
Speaker 5: We're going down into a coal mine, isn't it?
Speaker 4: Margo, have you ever been down in a coal mine?
Speaker 5: No, but this is the way I imagine it would be.
Speaker 5: How deep is this?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 5: This elevator shaft.
Speaker 4: About a hundred feet or so. It isn't very deep.
Speaker 5: It's deep enough for me, thanks.
Speaker 4: This will take us down to the tunnel.
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 2: We've arrived, Margo.
Speaker 4: That's all.
Speaker 5: That's enough.
Speaker 4: All right, step out. Look out for the mud and water.
Speaker 4: Better walk on the planks. Wait a minute. Flash your
Speaker 4: light around, Berkey. Well, no one here.
Speaker 2: All right, lead on, Berkey.
Speaker 5: It's a gloomy-looking place, isn't it? Sort of scary, too.
Speaker 4: You're just outside the tunnel now. All right, step in, Marlowe.
Speaker 5: Is this the tunnel?
Speaker 2: Not yet, lady.
Speaker 4: This is the decompression chamber.
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, the decomp... The what? I'm not going in
Speaker 5: that thing.
Speaker 2: It's the only way we can get into the tunnel, Margo.
Speaker 5: Well, isn't that the place where those men were... Say,
Speaker 5: I don't think I'm going to like this.
Speaker 4: Come on, Margo. It's too late to back out now.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll get in, but it's under protest.
Speaker 2: Okay, Berkey.
Speaker 4: Shut the door.
Speaker 1: That means that air is being pumped into this chamber.
Speaker 1: We're going under pressure.
Speaker 5: No, I don't like it.
Speaker 4: Your ears hurt, huh? It's the pressure. You'll get used
Speaker 4: to it.
Speaker 5: I don't intend to get used to it.
Speaker 4: It's necessary, Margot.
Speaker 1: You see, we've got to adjust the pressure in our
Speaker 1: bodies to the pressure in the tunnel before we can
Speaker 1: enter it. Well, pressure's even now. Ah, this is the tunnel.
Speaker 1: The river's right overhead, lady.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's so dark.
Speaker 4: Can you give us some light, Brookie? I wouldn't want
Speaker 4: someone sneaking up behind me in the dark. Yeah, that's better.
Speaker 5: Goodness, it's muddy down here.
Speaker 4: Now what, Mr.
Speaker 2: Berkey?
Speaker 4: Now we'll take a look around.
Speaker 5: Knowing you, Lamont, certainly gets me into the dauntless places.
Speaker 4: You're not sorry, are you?
Speaker 5: No, but I do wish that.
Speaker 2: Hey, look.
Speaker 1: I'm going back to the decompression chamber to see that
Speaker 1: whoever it is don't try to slip out while you're
Speaker 1: looking toward the center of the tunnel.
Speaker 4: That's a good idea.
Speaker 2: We'll go on ahead.
Speaker 4: Come on, Margot.
Speaker 5: Lamont, do you think that was such a good idea?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 6: Sending him back to guard the exit. Suppose whoever it
Speaker 6: is down here overpowers him and locks us in.
Speaker 4: Don't be silly, Margo. That couldn't happen. Berkey's no.
Speaker 5: The lights! They've gone out!
Speaker 3: Berkey!
Speaker 1: Berkey, what's wrong?
Speaker 2: Berkey! Come on, Margo.
Speaker 4: We've got to get out of here.
Speaker 5: I can't see anything, Lamont. I can't run in the dark.
Speaker 2: Over this way, Margo.
Speaker 4: Give me a hand.
Speaker 2: All right. Here's the door.
Speaker 1: Get us out of here!
Speaker 4: Sparky!
Speaker 2: Sparky!
Speaker 5: I don't think he can help us now. Well, what
Speaker 5: are we going to do?
Speaker 4: I guess we'll have to wait until someone comes and
Speaker 4: lets us out.
Speaker 5: That's a pleasant thought. Not really spending a night in
Speaker 5: this place. What's that?
Speaker 2: It sounds like a phone.
Speaker 5: Down here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, a foreman probably uses it to speak to his
Speaker 4: boss above ground.
Speaker 5: Well, where is it?
Speaker 4: Well, the sound came from... Oh, there it is.
Speaker 5: Hello?
Speaker 4: Well, Mr.
Speaker 1: Cranston, I guess this will teach you not to poke
Speaker 1: your nose into something that doesn't concern you.
Speaker 2: Who is this? Makes no difference now, Mr. Cranston. You're
Speaker 2: gonna die.
Speaker 1: You hear me?
Speaker 2: Die. Brantley, listen to me.
Speaker 4: I don't care about myself. But surely you won't do
Speaker 4: this to a woman. Sorry, I can't oblige you, but
Speaker 4: she's got to go, too. Now I'm gonna step up
Speaker 4: the pressure in the tunnel till your eardrums crack.
Speaker 3: It'll go until the whole tunnel will explode just like
Speaker 3: a punctured balloon.
Speaker 2: The river will rush in and.
Speaker 1: You'll be drowned like rats in a trap.
Speaker 2: Hello? Hello?
Speaker 4: Oh, he's hung up.
Speaker 5: What is it, Lamont? Oh, the lights. The lights are
Speaker 5: on again.
Speaker 4: Margot, I've got something to say to you, and it's
Speaker 4: not going to be easy.
Speaker 2: Yes, Lamont?
Speaker 4: This is the end for us. We're going to die
Speaker 4: here in this hole, Margot.
Speaker 5: Lamont... I'm not afraid to die.
Speaker 4: Margot.
Speaker 4: All I can see is I... I know now that I...
Speaker 4: I've been right about you.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Lamont.
Speaker 5: Is it Brandly?
Speaker 4: I don't know, Margot. I... I think so.
Speaker 5: Lamont, what's that?
Speaker 1: I'm afraid he's going to carry out his threat. He's
Speaker 1: going to increase the pressure till it blows this tunnel
Speaker 1: to bits.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 6: If this is to be the last few minutes I'm
Speaker 6: going to spend on this, Eric... I'm at least going
Speaker 6: to be gay about it. I'm not going out with
Speaker 6: a frown on my face.
Speaker 4: And a very lovely face it is, too, Margo.
Speaker 5: Why, Lamont, do you realize that's practically the first compliment
Speaker 5: you've ever paid me?
Speaker 4: Well, it just proves what a stuffy guy I've been.
Speaker 5: Oh, a pretty swell guy, if anyone should ask. There's
Speaker 5: never been a dull moment on our merry-go-round.
Speaker 4: We have had great times together, haven't we?
Speaker 5: I wouldn't trade them for anything, Lamont. Oh, Lamont... Oh,
Speaker 5: my ears hurt.
Speaker 2: My head. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, Margo, pressure's going up very rapidly. I guess
Speaker 4: he wants to finish his office in a hurry.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's so warm and damp down here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Pressure must be up pretty high now. We won't have
Speaker 4: long to wait.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's getting so misty.
Speaker 1: Margo.
Speaker 5: What is it, Lamarck?
Speaker 1: Margot, in a minute, that weak part of the tunnel
Speaker 1: up there, the part that hasn't been reinforced, is going
Speaker 1: to give way. The river's going to rush in. If
Speaker 1: we climb up this framework here, we'll be able to
Speaker 1: hold out longer.
Speaker 5: What difference will that make?
Speaker 2: I don't know, Margot, but come on, let's climb. All right, Lamont.
Speaker 5: If it'll make you any happier.
Speaker 2: Here, give me your hand. I'll help you.
Speaker 8: Come on.
Speaker 1: Lamont, help!
Speaker 7: Well, Commissioner Weston, we've pumped all the water out of
Speaker 7: the tunnel. Found no trace of Margot or Lamont's bodies.
Speaker 7: They must have been washed into the river.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, they were both personal friends of mine, too.
Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, I know.
Speaker 4: Well, that's the way it goes.
Speaker 7: Lamont was trying to help me. I was going to
Speaker 7: give up the whole job, Commissioner, but now I'm going
Speaker 7: ahead with it. If he thought that much of me, I.
Speaker 2: Well... Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 4: Well, now tell me about this Pop Berkey.
Speaker 2: Well, it's simple enough. I found Pop myself. He was
Speaker 2: just outside the tunnel, unconscious from a blow on his head.
Speaker 4: How long have you known him?
Speaker 7: He and my dad broke into sand hogging together. Later,
Speaker 7: when a tunnel accident made Berkey unfit for work underground,
Speaker 7: my dad always found a job for him up above.
Speaker 4: Ah. And, well, I sort of followed in dad's footsteps.
Speaker 8: Ah.
Speaker 4: Well, this whole business proves one thing. That so-called accident
Speaker 4: in the tunnel where the eight men were killed was
Speaker 4: no accident. I'll have my men stationed at the tunnel
Speaker 4: tomorrow when you go back to work. Oh, I'd appreciate it,
Speaker 4: Commissioner Winston. That's all right. You know, I'm going to
Speaker 4: miss that fellow Cranston.
Speaker 7: The End.
Speaker 4: Stockton, do you mind if I stay here a while
Speaker 4: and look this room over?
Speaker 7: No, not at all, Commissioner Weston. I've got to go
Speaker 7: down below in the tunnel and talk to the men.
Speaker 7: If anything happens this time... Nothing's going to happen, Mr.
Speaker 1: Stockton.
Speaker 4: Not while I'm here. Good luck, son.
Speaker 2: Good luck. Yeah, thanks.
Speaker 4: Commissioner Weston.
Speaker 2: Huh? What?
Speaker 4: It's the Shadow, Commissioner. The Shadow. Well, my friend, what
Speaker 4: are you doing here?
Speaker 2: I'm here to help you catch the murderer.
Speaker 4: That's what you're here for, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, sure.
Speaker 4: But who is he?
Speaker 2: Softly, Commissioner, softly.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't want to scare our murderer away, would you?
Speaker 4: Is he here?
Speaker 1: Very close now. In just a moment, he'll come into
Speaker 1: this room. This is what he's been waiting for. You see,
Speaker 1: the lives of the men in the tunnel depend on
Speaker 1: the proper functioning of the pump machinery here. The murderer
Speaker 1: will attempt to destroy the pump and kill the men
Speaker 1: down in the tunnel. This is to be his final job.
Speaker 1: For today, for the first time, Peter Stockton is down below.
Speaker 4: Well, he won't get away with it.
Speaker 2: Quiet, Commissioner.
Speaker 4: I think this is our man now.
Speaker 2: Quick.
Speaker 1: Hide behind the machinery.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right. Here it is. The main induction valve. Now, Mr. Stockton,
Speaker 4: you're going to pay for what your father did to me.
Speaker 2: Listen, stop it.
Speaker 8: I'll get it.
Speaker 2: I'll stop you. I'll stop you all right.
Speaker 4: Now, let's see who it is. Why, it's Pop Berkey.
Speaker 4: I've killed old Pop Berkey.
Speaker 2: No, Commissioner.
Speaker 4: He lived to.
Speaker 2: Hello, Commissioner.
Speaker 5: We've come to be witness.
Speaker 2: Wait, what?
Speaker 4: Cranston and you, Miss Lane, I thought you were... Yes,
Speaker 4: I know, Commissioner, but.
Speaker 5: Well, aren't you glad to see us?
Speaker 4: Oh, of course, of course. But how did you get out?
Speaker 4: Where have you been? You were in the tunnel, weren't you?
Speaker 4: One question at a time, Commissioner.
Speaker 1: We were in the tunnel, all right, but we escaped. Escaped?
Speaker 6: Yes, we climbed to the top of the tunnel just
Speaker 6: before the blow-off came.
Speaker 4: You climbed.
Speaker 5: There was an air pocket. A very wonderful air pocket.
Speaker 4: Don't forget the details, Margo.
Speaker 5: Oh, yes. I ruined a perfectly good pair of stockings.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's... But how did you get out?
Speaker 2: Through the escape chamber.
Speaker 4: Berkey had forgotten all about that.
Speaker 6: But Lamont hadn't. He found it, didn't you, Lamont? Right
Speaker 6: at the top of the tunnel. Let me tell you something, Commissioner.
Speaker 5: If you ever get stuck in a tunnel, have Lamont along.
Speaker 4: Well, I still don't understand it. What about Berkey? He
Speaker 4: confessed everything last night. It seems he hated Stockton because
Speaker 4: he thought Stockton's father was responsible for his accidents. Also,
Speaker 4: because Stockton's father.
Speaker 1: Married the woman he loved. Couldn't get even with his
Speaker 1: old man, so he was going to take it out
Speaker 1: on his son.
Speaker 4: Then he tried to implicate Brandy to shield himself. Well,
Speaker 4: I guess you've got all the evidence you need, Commissioner,
Speaker 4: so Margo and I will be running along. Wait a minute.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute. I'm not through with you two yet.
Speaker 4: Why didn't you let people know that you were safe?
Speaker 1: Because, Commissioner, we couldn't resist satisfying a lifelong ambition.
Speaker 4: What's that? Reading our own obituaries.
Speaker 3: Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by the
Speaker 3: Shadow Magazine. The characters, names, places, and plot are fictitious.
Speaker 3: Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Speaker 3: The Shadow Magazine is on sale at your local newsstand.
Speaker 1: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not
Speaker 1: pay you. The shadow knows.